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Electrochemical remediation of microplastics: Progress and prospects in water treatment

This review examines electrochemical methods for removing microplastics from water, including electrocoagulation, electro-oxidation, and the electro-Fenton process. Evidence indicates that electro-oxidation can achieve removal rates as high as 99 percent under optimized conditions. The study highlights these techniques as promising alternatives for water treatment but calls for further research to scale them up for real-world applications.

2025 Journal of Contaminant Hydrology 2 citations
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Application of Electrochemical Oxidation for Water and Wastewater Treatment: An Overview

This review covers electrochemical oxidation, an advanced water treatment method that uses electricity to break down stubborn pollutants in wastewater. The technique can remove pharmaceuticals, dyes, and other persistent chemicals that standard treatment misses. While not specifically about microplastics, this type of advanced treatment technology is relevant to addressing the growing problem of emerging contaminants in drinking water.

2023 Molecules 95 citations
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Examining Current and Future Applications of Electrocoagulation in Wastewater Treatment

This review provides a comprehensive look at electrocoagulation, an electricity-based water treatment technique that can remove a wide range of pollutants including microplastics from wastewater. The analysis covers decades of research showing the method is effective, relatively low-cost, and environmentally friendly compared to chemical treatments. The authors identify microplastic removal as one of the promising newer applications of this technology.

2023 Water 130 citations
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Electrocoagulation in Wastewater Treatment: A Comprehensive Review of Heavy Metal and Pollutant Removal

This comprehensive review evaluates electrocoagulation as a wastewater treatment method for removing heavy metals and other pollutants, including microplastics. Researchers found that electrocoagulation is a versatile and effective technique compared to conventional methods like membrane filtration or chemical coagulation. The study highlights its advantages in terms of environmental compatibility and cost-effectiveness, while noting that optimization of operating parameters is still needed for different wastewater types.

2024 Asian Journal of Chemical Sciences 2 citations
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Waves of change: Electrochemical innovations for environmental management and resource recovery from water – A review

This review covers recent advances in electrochemical technologies for environmental management and water resource recovery. Researchers highlighted how electrochemical methods can effectively target emerging water contaminants including heavy metals, pharmaceuticals, and microplastics. The study suggests that these innovative approaches offer promising solutions for removing microplastics and other pollutants from water treatment systems.

2024 Journal of Environmental Management 16 citations
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Application of Electrochemical Oxidation for Water and Wastewater Treatment: An Overview

This review covered electrochemical oxidation technologies for water and wastewater treatment, discussing their effectiveness against emerging pollutants, dyes, and chemicals while highlighting operational parameters that influence treatment efficiency.

2023 Preprints.org 11 citations
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A Comprehensive Review of the Developments in Electrocoagulation for the Removal of Contaminants from Wastewater

This comprehensive review covers electrocoagulation, an emerging water treatment technology that uses electrical current to remove pollutants including microplastics from wastewater. The method offers advantages like smaller equipment size, simpler operation, and lower chemical use compared to traditional approaches. As concerns about microplastics in water grow, electrocoagulation represents a promising tool for cleaner water treatment.

2023 Separations 44 citations
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Electrocoagulation as a Possible Treatment for Wastewater Contaminated with Microplastics - A Review

This review examined electrocoagulation and hybrid membrane technologies as innovative approaches for removing microplastics from wastewater, noting that MPs are omnipresent pollutants capable of biomagnification. The review covered the effectiveness of electrochemical processes, advanced oxidation, and membrane filtration systems including their combination for enhanced microplastic removal.

2024 BIO Web of Conferences 1 citations
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Chemical methods to remove microplastics from wastewater: A review

This review examines three chemical approaches for removing microplastics from wastewater: coagulation (clumping particles together), electrocoagulation (using electrical current), and advanced oxidation (breaking plastics down chemically). Each method has strengths and weaknesses in terms of cost, effectiveness, and potential byproducts. The research is important because wastewater treatment plants are a major pathway through which microplastics reach rivers, lakes, and ultimately human drinking water sources.

2024 Environmental Research 55 citations
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Emerging electrochemical techniques for identifying and removing micro/nanoplastics in urban waters

This review examines emerging electrochemical techniques for detecting and removing micro- and nanoplastics from urban waters, highlighting their advantages over conventional methods for enabling real-time monitoring and efficient degradation.

2022 Water Research 116 citations
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Removal of Microplastics from Wastewater by Methods of Electrocoagulation and Adsorption

This review examines electrocoagulation and adsorption methods for removing microplastics from wastewater, comparing them against conventional physical, chemical, and biological approaches in terms of removal efficiency, cost, and practical scalability.

2025 Journal of Water Chemistry and Technology 3 citations
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Reduction of Microplastic in Wastewater Via Electrocoagulation Process

This review examines how electrocoagulation, a water treatment process that uses electrical current to clump contaminants together, can remove microplastics from wastewater. Researchers found that the technique can achieve high removal rates for various types and sizes of microplastic particles. The study highlights electrocoagulation as a promising and relatively simple addition to conventional wastewater treatment for addressing microplastic pollution.

2024 IOP Conference Series Earth and Environmental Science 8 citations
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Degradation of microplastics by electrocoagulation technology: Combination oxidation and flocculation effects

Researchers evaluated electrocoagulation technology for removing four common types of microplastics from water and discovered that the process works through both oxidation and flocculation mechanisms. Flocculation accounted for the majority of removal (69-77%), while electrochemical oxidation via hydroxyl radicals contributed an additional 8-21% depending on the plastic type. The study found that PVC and polypropylene were removed most effectively due to their hydrophilic properties, and a neutral pH of 7 provided the best balance between the two removal mechanisms.

2025 Journal of Hazardous Materials 8 citations
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Coagulation technologies for separation of microplastics in water: current status

This review examines how coagulation water treatment technologies can remove microplastics from water. Conventional coagulation achieves 8-98% removal efficiency while electrocoagulation achieves 8-99%, depending on conditions, offering a potentially effective approach for reducing microplastics in drinking water and wastewater.

2023 Journal of Physics Conference Series
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Treatment of electroplating wastewater using electrocoagulation and integrated membrane

This study developed an electrocoagulation and membrane filtration system that removes over 99% of heavy metals from industrial wastewater. While not directly about microplastics, the technology is relevant because microplastics in water often carry heavy metals that can leach into drinking water. Improved industrial wastewater treatment reduces the overall toxic burden in water systems that people depend on.

2024 Water Science & Technology 14 citations
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Microplastics in aquatic systems: An in-depth review of current and potential water treatment processes

This review provides a detailed examination of microplastic contamination in aquatic systems and evaluates current and emerging water treatment technologies for their removal. Researchers assessed methods ranging from conventional coagulation and filtration to advanced techniques like membrane bioreactors and electrochemical processes. The study concludes that while no single technology fully eliminates microplastics, combining multiple treatment approaches offers the most promising path forward.

2024 Chemosphere 10 citations
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A comprehensive review of microplastics in wastewater treatment plants

This review surveys microplastic removal technologies used in wastewater treatment plants, comparing membrane bioreactors, electrocoagulation, coagulation-sedimentation, and biodegradation approaches. Understanding removal efficiency at treatment plants is critical because they are a primary pathway by which microplastics — and the toxic chemicals they carry — reach rivers, coastal waters, and ultimately drinking water supplies.

2024 BIO Web of Conferences 2 citations
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Emerging electrochemical tools for microplastics remediation and sensing

This review examines emerging electrochemical approaches for both detecting and remediating microplastics in the environment, highlighting their advantages over traditional methods and identifying key challenges and opportunities for developing practical electrochemical tools to address microplastic pollution.

2022 Frontiers in Sensors 29 citations
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Removal of Organic Micro-Pollutants from Wastewater in Electrochemical Processes—Review

This review summarized electrochemical methods for removing organic micropollutants from wastewater, covering advanced oxidation and photochemical processes and their effectiveness against compounds resistant to conventional biological treatment.

2023 Energies 20 citations
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Enhancement of Water Quality Parameters with Microplastics via Electrocoagulation

Researchers investigated the use of electrocoagulation to enhance water quality parameters and remove microplastics from water, comparing primary and secondary microplastic types. They found that electrocoagulation effectively reduced microplastic concentrations alongside other water quality parameters, demonstrating its potential as an integrated treatment technology for microplastic-contaminated water.

2025 Malaysian Journal on Composites Science and Manufacturing
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The efficacious of AOP-based processes in concert with electrocoagulation in abatement of CECs from water/wastewater

Researchers reviewed how combining electrocoagulation — an electrical water-cleaning method — with advanced oxidation processes like ozone, UV light, and Fenton reactions can dramatically improve the removal of hard-to-treat contaminants from water and wastewater. While these hybrid systems show strong results in the lab, the review notes that data for real-world industrial-scale applications, particularly for microplastics and pesticides, remains limited.

2023 npj Clean Water 63 citations
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Electrochemical treatment of wastewater to remove contaminants from the production and disposal of plastics: a review

Researchers reviewed electrochemical treatment methods for removing plastic-related contaminants from wastewater, including bisphenol A, phthalic acid esters, and benzotriazoles. The review confirmed that electrochemical treatments are a viable option for removing these persistent plastic contaminants, and assessed their effectiveness in terms of removal rates, transformation products, toxicity, and energy requirements.

2022 Environmental Chemistry Letters 52 citations
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A review on the recent advances in electrochemical treatment technologies for sludge dewatering and alternative uses

This review examined recent advances in electrochemical treatment technologies for sludge dewatering and alternative uses, highlighting how these methods can address challenges including pathogen removal and microplastic contamination in municipal wastewater sludge.

2023 Journal of Hazardous Materials Advances 31 citations
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Advanced electrocatalytic redox processes for environmental remediation of halogenated organic water pollutants

Researchers reviewed advanced electrochemical methods for breaking down halogenated organic pollutants in water, which are persistent contaminants found in many industrial and consumer products. The study examined how electrocatalytic processes can target the strong carbon-halogen bonds that make these chemicals so resistant to natural degradation. The findings suggest that these emerging treatment technologies hold promise for cleaning up contaminated water sources more effectively than conventional methods.

2023 Chemical Communications 39 citations